How to Paint & Age a Vintage Bowl

Hi everyone! Are you looking forward to the week-end as much as I am? My sweet husband and I plan to enjoy some alone time while our sweet daughter goes away on a youth group retreat. I’m still working on a plan, but while perusing Craigslist and making a list of garage sales to attend today, I discovered five town wide garage sales in our area. Can you believe it?! Things went from zero to fifty pretty quickly around here. Unfortunately, the weatherman has reported a chance of showers, but maybe not enough to stop us going to one of the sales for a couple of hours. I shall report back later on. Meanwhile, today I’ve got a simple project involving an old vintage bowl that I gave an easy makeover.

As we junker/DIYers are fond of saying, “It’s amazing what a little black paint can do.”

Here’s the old vintage bowl shortly after I bought it at an estate sale. As you can see, its light finish had started to chip pretty badly. I gave it a light sanding to remove loose bits and to smooth things out.

Then I gave it two coats of American Decor “Carbon” chalk paint and sanded some more to reveal the brown stain underneath.

Then I glopped on some Minwax clear paste wax.

And spread an even coat over the entire surface with a piece of cheesecloth. I let it sit for about ten minutes and then buffed it out by rubbing with a clean piece of cheesecloth until the surface no long felt sticky, but smooth and hard.

Now I have a completely new bowl, with an attractive satin smooth surface. I love that it has a sort of dough bowl vibe.

I can fill it with all sorts of things–hydrangea later in the summer, baby boo pumpkins in the fall, and pine cones in the winter.

So keep an eye out for a vintage bowl while you’re out thrifting or garage saling this week-end, and you too can have a sleak, vintage-y bowl in just a few steps.

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